Online Practice School
Free Introductory Elemental Practice Series to see if my practice school is a good fit for you to progress with in daily somatic embodiment work.
Embodied Elements Daily Practices
I recommend practicing these for 1-2 weeks to get a sense for how frequently you’d like to practice weekly and how you do with hour long video practices. It can be difficult to sustain attention depending on your disposition. It gets better with time and practice, just like we develop muscle memory. Once you know you can integrate this style of embodied learning into your daily life. Reach out and join the online practice school.
Please email me with any questions or set up a consultation session to explore the next step, where we create a home practice plan based on your specific needs and goals.
earth
In this practice I introduce foundational concepts of posture practice that are often overlooked. Includes a detailed explanation of the activation of the foot and standing leg alignment. Class finishes with a standing meditation and added emphasis on how this is applied in daily life to ‘remember feet’.
water
This practice introduces the concepts of embodying your natural rhythm and how to ‘move like water’. Through guided attention and breath-centric movements you will learn what a balanced pelvis feels like. Introduction of the lower body infant roll. A practice which is a life long exploration of creating space and flow in the pelvis. A felt understanding and daily practice for a mobile pelvis and stable sacrum is a movement standard necessary for a pain free low back.
Fire
Introduction to the ‘core actions’ and a containment through the torso. This alignment creates an internal space that has ‘right- relationship to the fire’ through stacking the rib cage over the pelvis. This internal activation is crucial for the alignment of the spine needed for every other posture in yoga. This alignment is how you will begin to develop a practice that honors the spine and supports an ease to holding good posture in daily life. Embodiment of these balancing activation helps to develop the core strength while doing whatever it is that you do.
air
This exploration of the shoulders and thoracic spine support understanding hold to hold good alignment during long working hours. Movement as inquiry will help you to develop an a felt understanding of what may be causing neck and/or upper back pain. An explanation of native joint function in this area and tips on integrating these movements into your daily life to support longevity and prevent ‘tech-neck’.
space
An exploration of a hard to grasp element of practice and an immersion in sound. A detailed breakdown of strength drills for the muscles that support the head alignment needed during all posture practice. Guided exploration of activation needed to embody what it means to ‘stand up strait’ and ‘get your head on your shoulders’, physically and energetically. Sound healing supports in sustaining a meditative focus as you sensitively feel your way through crucial neck mobility standards and your capacity for the shoulder stability that allows it.
embodied elements
A practice to integrate and review everything you have learned from the week in a moving meditation. You will spend much of the practice in standing to support you in developing foundational strength in the feet, legs, and pelvis while expressing the mobility of the upper body in slow meditative flows. A practice to commit to weekly as self check-in and reminder of what it feels like to ‘move from your center’.
Once you have developed competency with these practices you are ready for the next steps! I prefer to work personally with each client to develop a practice that is just right for you. I would love if you set up a consultation time so we could get to know each other and I can make specific recommendations based on your goals and needs.